Section 1100. Rules and regulations of the department

1. The department
  may make rules and regulations for the protection from contamination  of
  any  or  all public supplies of potable waters and water supplies of the
  state or United States, institutions, parks, reservations or  posts  and
  their  sources  within  the state, and the commissioner of environmental
  protection of the city of New York and the board of water supply of  the
  city  of  New  York  may  make such rules and regulations subject to the
  approval of the department for the protection from contamination of  any
  or  all  public  supplies of potable waters and their sources within the
  state where the same constitute a part of the source of the public water
  supply of said city.
    2. Every such rule or regulation shall be published at least  once  in
  each  week  for  two consecutive weeks, in at least one newspaper of the
  county where the waters to which it relates are  located.  The  cost  of
  such  publication  shall be paid by the corporation, municipality, state
  or  United  States  or  state  or  United  States   institution,   park,
  reservation  or  post benefited by the protection of the water supply to
  which the rule or regulation published relates.
    3. The affidavit of  the  printer,  publisher  or  proprietor  of  the
  newspaper  in which such rule or regulation is published shall be filed,
  together with the rule or regulation published, in  the  county  clerk's
  office  of such county, and such affidavit and rule and regulation shall
  be conclusive evidence of such publication, and of all the facts therein
  stated in all courts and places.
    4. All rules and regulations heretofore duly made  and  published  for
  the  sanitary  protection  of public water supplies, pursuant to chapter
  five hundred forty-three of the laws of  eighteen  hundred  eighty-five,
  and  chapter  six  hundred  sixty-one  of  the  laws of eighteen hundred
  ninety-three, as amended, are hereby legalized, ratified, confirmed  and
  continued in force, until new rules and regulations become operative.
    5.  This section shall not be construed to repeal or affect any of the
  provisions of  chapter  three  hundred  seventy-eight  of  the  laws  of
  eighteen hundred ninety-seven, or its amendments.